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Feast on Scraps
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Kitchen experiments that will neither bankrupt you or give you a heart attack, alongside a guide to cheap eats and hidden gems around London (with an SE sway). No 'noms'. No cupcakes. No wanking into a plate of foie gras.
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Caribbean roast vegetables

Plain roast vegetables need tarting up when you’ve eaten nothing but carrots and swede et al all winter. There’s a recipe in the book, Spice it Up called ‘Levi’s Roots’ ...

11 mar 12

‘Thai’ smoked mackerel pate

What to do when you need to knock up a quick canape at the last minute (LOL)? This! All it really involves is a bit of chopping and mixing, and everyone has mackerels, creme fraiche and spices knocki...

11 mar 12

Spiced roasted cauliflower

Cauliflower is for sure one of those vegetables that everyone thinks is shit, but is actually really good. While not a big player in the flavour stakes, its relative blandness makes it a brilliant ve...

11 mar 12

Coconut pancakes with rum bananas

Next week only includes one of the best days of the year; pancake day – the annual Tuesday when we all fry up batter, declare we should do it all the time, then not touch a homemade crepe again...

13 feb 12

Leek, mushroom and broccoli pearl barley risotto

I’ve got well into using pearl barley instead of rice for risotto lately. It seems to retain a lovely chewiness when you cook it, and more often comes out like a shit-hot risotto, rather than g...

30 jan 12

Quinoa, lentil, roast squash and smoked mackerel salad

Mmmm, look at that bowl of health- proteiney, vitaminey, health. And it was delicious too – what more do you want? Dark green lentils and quinoa together, rather than one or the other, have pro...

16 jan 12

Smoky sausage with soft polenta

I cannot bang on enough about how easy and delicious this meal was. And it was created in less than half an hour, with ingredients that would have cost a few mere pounds per portion – I shit yo...

08 jan 12

Creamy pork, apple and mustard casserole

  Pork, apples and mustard are like the food equivalent of Cher, Dionne and Tai (AKA BFFs) and this comforting casserole goes to prove it. So it looks like a bowl of sick, what of it? Using tart...

05 jan 12

Spicy Carrot and Lentil Soup

  My life is ruled by soup. It’s cheap, portable, healthy and I have more carrots than I can shake a stick at. This one was a winner because it tasted amazing on the first day I had it and...

30 dec 11

Frozen Fruit Martinis

Frozen fruit blended with booze was never going to taste shit was it? I recently tried Nigella’s Watermelon Daquiri and was inspired to try other spirit/fruit combos and thus happened upon the ...

07 aug 11

Jerk Chicken Curry

It recently occurred to me that as a jerk marinade has a fryable base of blended onion, it would probably make a pretty good paste for a jerk-flavoured Carribean curry. It turns out it does, simmered...

07 aug 11

Crayfish Bob at the Two Degrees festival

American crayfish are taking over the Thames. Fact. But, good old Crayfish Bob is putting a stop to it, and catching the bastards before they can wipe out the native white-claw crayfish entirely. And...

16 jun 11

The Hideaway Neighbourhood Bar & Kitchen – Archway

Cheap, relaxed restaurants in North London are a bit of a black hole in my good places to eat knowledge. Since being invited to eat at The Hideaway Neighbourhood Bar & Kitchen last week however, ...

12 jun 11

El Xampanyet tapas bar – Barcelona

The best tapas is Barcelona is not the easiest thing to find. I always want to find somewhere that the locals would go to, and isn’t too tourist-ridden, but those places are often the most hidd...

05 jun 11

Da Polpo – Maiden Lane

Da Polpo is the latest addition to Russell Norman’s group of central London, Italian ‘small-plate’ restaurants, which also includes Polpetto, Polpo, and the more New York inspired, ...

05 jun 11

Summertime pesto

Nothing says summer like fresh herbs. It might be raining outside (as it is today, and for 75% of the British summer) but a pesto made of fresh mint, rocket and wet garlic (although regular garlic is...

05 jun 11

Sustainable sushi school at Feng Sushi

Last week, I was invited to join restauranteur Silla Bjerrum at Feng Sushi for a taster of the Sushi School she runs at the Notting Hill branch of the restaurant. As well as teaching the intricate ar...

20 mar 11

Steak, ale and wild mushroom pie

Soz about the picture, but when did you see the inside of a pie look good? When finished, it would obvs have pastry on top. The key ingredients for making this pie so good are time, and dried wild mu...

20 mar 11

#Meateasy, New Cross

Until the middle of March, the infamous Meatwagon has set up shop in the upstairs part of The Goldsmiths Tavern in New Cross, serving up their legendary burgers alongside, for the first time, fries, ...

18 jan 11

The Green & Black’s 15.15 challenge

Last Monday, Green & Black’s invited me to the swankorama Miele showrooms to take part in the 15.15 challenge, a competition to see who could create the best dish in fifteen minutes, with a...

13 nov 10

Fennel and lemon stuffing

And the award for shittest food picture of the year goes to… just be glad I cropped out the greasy gizzardy detail. Anyway… the fennel that came in my vegetable box last week was still sp...

31 oct 10

The Actress – East Dulwich

It seems like Capital Pubs are gradually taking over South London. The Florence, The Victoria and The Bishop are already firm favourites, and the latest addition the their arsenal, The Actress, looks...

19 sep 10

Ganapati South Indian Kitchen – Peckham

Thanks to Iron Maiden, playing at The Ruskin Arms in Manor Park is a rite of passage every metal band worth their leather trousers must undertake, and it’s lucky that my brother adhered to the ...

12 sep 10

What we did on our holidays…

For the past ten days I have been loafing about on the Costa Blanca and as well as taking in the spectacular views of the San Miguel de Salinas mountains, I’ve quaffed a fair bit of the mountai...

04 sep 10

Jerking Off

The annual Jerk Cook Out took place in Herne Hill’s Brockwell Park this weekend, so as a jerk enthusiast, I was there like a moth to a flame. The park was filled with a fragrant waft of smoke f...

17 aug 10

Rosewater sponge with lemon cream cheese icing

I like to think I’m alright at cooking, but baking is untrodden territory to me. I think it’s the surprise element of it that puts me off, there’s no opportunity for tasting and adj...

14 aug 10

Sticky honey & lemon chicken with chilli & coriander

I was eavesdropping on someone’s conversation at work the other day about some sticky lemon chicken they’d had for dinner the night before. Sounded pretty good, so thought I’d have ...

14 aug 10

Aromatic Carrot and Chick Pea Salad

Eesh, are my pictures getting worse? Hmm, just imagine the blurriness gives it a dreamy quality to further lure you in. Anyway… I made some tikka lamb this week (Helen’s brilliant marinad...

08 aug 10

Shacklewell Nights Supper Club

Restaurants of course vary to a certain extent, but because of their integral guerilla nature, one of the best things about supper clubs is that no two will ever be the same. As such, Shacklewell Nig...

03 aug 10

From Bath Food Festival to the WWW

A few Sundays ago, myself and a gaggle of bloggers went off-piste from our usual London food haunts to go and see head chef of the super-swanky Bath Priory Hotel, Sam Moody, cook up a storm at The Ba...

02 aug 10

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